| The Standard Raise
The standard raise is depicted as 3xBB plus 1BB per limper. This meaning, if there are 2 limpers up to you, that’s 2xBB for the limpers, plus the 3xBB for a total raise a 5xBB. Of course you can’t follow this exactly, as it will get readable by the other players. Thus, my standard raise is 3-5xBB plus 1BB per limper. The reasoning behind the standard is so your opponents get no read preflop on the strength of your hand, so one thing you want to avoid doing is raise 5xBB plus 1BB per limper when you have a stronger hand, and 3xBB plus 1BB per limper when you have a weaker hand.
Here are some examples:
Example one, everybody has a decent stack, there are no short stacks, and there are no major large stacks. Everybody’s stack is around 5000
Blinds 50/100
seat 1-SB 50
seat 2-BB 100
seat 3-folds
seat 4-limps
seat 5-limps
seat 6-folds
seat 7-me with AK
I want to make the standard raise here, as I have a decent hand and nobody has yet shown they have a strong hand. The BB is 100, so 3xBB is 300 and 2 limpers is another 200 (1xBB per limper) for a total raise of 500. This is effective so the blinds can’t play with junk and out flop me.
Example 2, this is the final 4 of a 10 player sit n go. Every player has 3750 in chips.
Blinds 100/200
seat 1- SB for 100
seat 2-BB for 200
seat 3-folds
seat 4-me with 99 in
Here I’m going to change it up a bit. Instead of betting 3xBB (600), I’m going to raise 5xBB (1000). This is because if I raise to 600, I am likely to get a call from AT, QJ, KQ, and other hands of that sort. By raising 1000, I can push out those hands that are a coin flip and that could potentially out flop me. Also, I didn’t raise too much, to the point where I am pot committed and required to call a re-raise where I would be dominated 95% of the time.
Of course there are exceptions to everything, and that’s no different for the rules of the standard raise. These exceptions involve position, opponents stack sizes, and your stack size.
Stay tuned for the continuation article “The Exceptions to the Standard Raise”
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